I've been playing astrobot on PS5 and it's amazing like Sony and Nintendo had a baby amazing if you like this sort of thing hit like subscribe notification welcome to another foxy games UK news video now look though I play a variety of other relevant platforms I'm a PlayStation gamer first and foremost I think we all know that and though the foxy games UK Channel covers a variety of news from Xbox to Nintendo and even VR I can admit we are more skewed towards PlayStation after all I began as PlayStation USS now all those years ago but uh this well there's just no sugar coating this news that I'm about to relay and I am an equal opportunities criticizer applaud and I like to think I'm fairly reasonable in doing so yeah in the last video it was Xbox being criticized and now it's PlayStation's turn but it's not about turns there's good and bad news everywhere you can't cherry pick what you like what you don't like news news news good or bad that's what I do so what am I talking about well the disaster the absolute disaster that is Concord and I'm afraid Sony may have sodomized itself on this one courtesy of PlayStation universe.com Link in the video description evidently my opinion will follow so then Concord is being taken offline this Friday refunds are to be issued to all players firewor Studios New shooter and very new it is Concord launched in less than an ideal state for a multiplayer game the issue wasn't technical it wasn't having major server problems it just didn't hit and Garner enough players in fact it failed to hit more than 700 concurrent players on Steam over its launch weekend and at least PC never went further than its peak of 697 concurrence or concordance if you prefer however PlayStation has published a blog post announcing that Concord will be taken offline on September 6th the day astrobot releases which is this coming Friday here's a quote Concord fans we've been listening closely to your feedback since the launch of Concord on PlayStation 5 and PC and want to thank everyone who has joined the journey aboard the North Star this was fireworks Ryan Ellis who went on to say your support and the passionate Community passionate that has grown around the game has meant the well to us however while many qualities of the experience resonated with players we also recognized that the other aspects of the game and our initial launch didn't land the way we intended therefore at this time we have decided to take the game offline starting September 6th and explore options including those that will better reach our players can somebody say free to play now Ellis goes on to confirm that refunds refunds well that's a standup of Sony I suppose will be issued to all players who bought Concord across PS5 and PC while those who purchased a physical copy of the game and at retail stores are advised to return that to the retailer for their refund wow I say stand up of Sony I mean they deserve their money back don't know if you're polygon the game however what they could have done is uh quickly put it free to play and offer a variety of content or promised them whatever DLC is coming next for free uh for actually purchasing the game they could have done that but they're going all up and issuing refunds which uh can't knock them for that can you now to say that this is an unfortunate end for Concord doesn't even cover it firewalk created a very solid shooter with a business model that really heartened back to the days before freet to-play live service Games took over back when you paid for a game once and uh weren't pested by constant in-game messages and popups inviting you to spend even more money on skins and battle passes now firewalk tried to do something different which makes it all the more disheartening to see things go to this route especially because once it gets taken offline it's likely to face even more challenges trying to come back and make a second first impression because the game really is being slammed into the dirt now and so far really pitiful pitiful SS Concord was only able to sell around 25,000 copies globally and that's not just on one platform that's both PC and PS5 the cold reality is that it is likely not enough for PlayStation to keep investing in it and believe me it had a road map for this game they probably had a lot of money tied to this game and this is really egg on the faces at Sony perhaps the worst of this is that we may be in yet for another round of layoffs because of the this time from firewalk in the coming months which would round out this tragic turn of events for Concord and firewalk Studios was fire really a good investment when you think about it I think Sony was so fixated on the games as a service model they just went out buying Studios that they thought had you know expertise in this area and perhaps they do but this game wasn't the one now Concord launched at the end of just last month on August 23rd and it'll be offline on September 6th meaning that the game only had a live service of 15 days 15 day you got Cliffy V looking up saying law Breakers but anyway this is insane and that's the end of the article I mean so much to unpack now Sony tried really to enter the OverWatch SL valerant games as a service space and failed miserably so much so that Sony interactive entertainment has elected to take Concord offline and issue refunds to the 25,000 who actually purchased what should have essentially been a free-to-play game to begin with and I've always said that I posted that I mentioned that in videos I don't know why this game's at retail this is probably the biggest L Sony has taken certainly in my time with the platform which dates back to the year 2000 almost 25 years ago wow has it really been that long suffice to say Concord could go down as the biggest flop in Sony's history in releasing video game software I mean approximately 25,000 people picked up the game and only 15,000 were actual PlayStation and the other was 10K on PC and Xbox stands are having a field day right now and why not I mean for years they've been abused with the tagline Xbox Gamers don't buy games even I've said it all they've heard Halo infinite is lowkey trash and yet Halo infinite still stands today and remains on Xbox and PC platforms via Game Pass and at retail I know know I own a physical copy of the game now I don't know how many retail copies Halo infinite sold but I suspect it's a damn site more than 25,000 copies even if accessible as part of Game Pass subscription I think when it comes to Concord Sony was simply like a fish out of water when I played the Concord beta I I didn't think the game was bad at all if holy un original with a pretty forgettable lineup of uh cast of characters likely Sony will redeploy Concord onto its PlayStation Plus Service as what really should have been in the first place a free-to-play title it really does suck though my sympathy goes to the developers who had to work on the game who pulled their heart and sweat and tears over his 8-year development yes 8 years but as the saying goes that video game entertainment Show Business Baby and Concord did little to show that it was anything more than an OverWatch cross with Guardians of the Galaxy ripoff Sony Interactive tment reportedly yes Shunk a ton of cash into this game and is estimated to lose a whopping 2 200 million us with Concord when all said and done $200 million us this is no insignificant amount of money which really let's think about it could have funded a resistance series remake perhaps a new game a new Socom game certainly and or even a MotorStorm Revival and they could have all had on online functionality they could have made money through those games offering tangible single player content in the mix what a waste of resources likely committed to concord's content road map which is now in serious doubt they probably sell it as pack packs you know on uh Playstation Plus after offering it as a freeo play even ex gears producer Cliffy bees ill come on I got to kick this off are you with me people xgears producer Cliffy be's ill- faded law Breakers game pulling more players and may have even outlasted Concord Sony is probably rethinking its games as a service strategy after this abject failure of a PlayStation first party game and perhaps it should as this is a very very competitive space with a slew of already long and well established IP and in spite of acquiring online gaming supro Bungie a studio with his own internal problems Sony was just simply far too green a veritable freshman an absolute amateur in the games as a service space sound off in the comments and moving on to other news which comes courtesy by way of our friends over at wccftech.com we've been in this game a long time just published a few days ago Link in the description and before we go ahead I just want to give a slight disclaimer there is a PlayStation 5 pro mockup video that you can see which is a full source and credit to the creators down there I put a disclaimer I've actually put their details at the beginning of the clip but this is what we can expect PS5 Pro to look like uh maybe a few tweaks here and there that are slightly different but essentially this is it so back to the article PlayStation 5 Pro performance closer to a 7700 XT fast R tracing etc etc so the PlayStation 5 pros performance is expected to be the ball Park of the radon that's the AMD Radeon 7700 XT GPU which is a very capable piece of Hardware but with some improvements obviously in rate tracing performance according to a well-known leaker Now setting expectations in check well-known AMD leaker Kepler revealed on X formerly Twitter that the new console's performance is close to the 7700 X restoration slightly faster in rate racing which let's be honest it would need to be this information does fall in line with everything we've heard so far as a console is said to bring a significant rate racing performance improvement over the bass PS5 model now with the PlayStation 5 Pro reveal supposedly getting closer more information on the console started emerging online just in the past few days and continues to do so a lot of people looking forward to this piece of Hardware I certainly am now according to well-known leaker Billy Billy K the console design won't be too different from that of the bass model as seen in the clip I showed as shown on the systems Packaging additionally it is not yet known if the console be released with a disc drive I suspect it will two packages or just buy the disc drive whatever as the packaging the Leica saw was a digital only edition of the console so PlayStation 5 pros reveal is R to be coming in just weeks maybe a week from now we will keep you posted on this channel as will wccf Tech as soon as more details on this system is made available and let's hope that Mark Cy turns up and does his little Tech talk oh I do love a mar Sony Tech talk but yeah if the PS5 pro model does Sport the equivalent of an RX 7700 XT well then the capability would fall in between the RTX 370 TI and an RX 6800 making it approximately as powerful as the RX 7700 XT with better rate tracing than the MD radon and nid Nvidia rather GeForce cards that I just mentioned now the rumors of PS5 Pro sporting AR TX 4090 or even RTX 3080 TI level power is quite simply the staff of PlayStation Fanboy dreams in a word nonsense the standard PS5 has a GPU closer to an rx5700 or RTX 2070 and the Pro Models RX 7700 XT is approximately 180% more powerful than the 5700 in GPU just in GPU okay this does not mean that the console is going to be 180% more powerful than the vanilla PS5 model let's make that clear so overall the PS5 pro has around 33 T flops in compute power in real world performance PS5 Pro's GPU sits around 17 yes 17 T flops still very impressive for a console providing approximately 45% more power yes than the vanilla PS5 model interesting stuff right interesting so if if it really is on par with the RX 7700 XT then you can expect games to look absolutely amazing but it has caused really a bit of debate if we go over to playstationlifestyle.net again Link in the description it's been a bit of a debate whether PS5 Pro would be a better deal than an equivalent PC and for the price cuz speculations about ps5s uh well the Pro Models potentially Hefty price tag have been circulating in intense debate has ensued over console versus PC costs and specs as it does with every generation every mid generation one side is of the view that it's impossible impossible to build a decent PC in the same price range as the console even though we don't know what the price is yet it's probably going to be around 600 or less while the other insists that they can build a PC capable of handling demanding games with used parts for the potential price of a Psy Pro which I I just don't think they can you won't get the RT you might get a better CPU now PlayStation's Mark Cy previously weighed in on the PS5 versus uh PC cost and specs debate and it's been widly speculated that PS5 Pro will cost somewhere between $6 to$ 700 us some even claim it's possible to build a PC that's on par with the console based on the specs leak so far which it isn't I've been looking for a gaming PC and you know you're looking at at least 1,500 you might get down to like 1,200 but I'm not talking about used parts here but that would really put the PS5 Pro in that kind of PC in the same price range according to one side of the debate but PC has a lot more uses than just playing games and allows a lot more freedom than a console even though a console I believe is still far more accessible than a PC is today maybe you can go to a used and build something but building a rig capable of running modern AAA games effectively and efficiently will cost more than $700 Us in response to the used parts argument PlayStation's own mark Journey this is the architect of PS4 Pro PS4 Pro um the PS4 before it and obviously PS5 pointed out certainly pointed out that uh used console is significantly cheaper than PC made of used parts so at the end of the day console still comes out cheaper certainly went not to say they had to get a used motherboard and that was the only way that they could build a PS5 equivalent for a PS5 price and if you're using used parts well you can get a used PS5 on eBay for around $300 or something well he has a point in there I mean if you're going to compare used on PC don't compare it on the uh PlayStation 5 regardless wherever you stand on this debate I suppose people are going to align more with the platform they prefer the most and that's what they'll argue for as is the case but yeah moving on to a wccftech.com article it's actually our last article of the video but uh the headline is rather interesting since we're talking about specs and and versus this and versus that but uh PlayStation 6 yes PlayStation 6 and the next Xbox could deliver the biggest generational leap with machine learning current generation was oversold to Consumers that latter part of that headline interesting we'll delve into that but yeah bear in mind PS5 Pro is killed out with machine learning so that's learnings no pun intended that PlayStation 6 will benefit from so while the PlayStation 6 and the next Xbox console have yet to be officially revealed yeah you're kidding Microsoft also teased it will provide the biggest generational leap ever but Microsoft been making a lot of promises lately and reneging on almost every one of them now according to the tech experts at digital Foundry this is likely to happen with the help of machine learning speaking during their recent podcast the tech experts digital Foundry discussed the yet to be revealed Next Generation systems yeah we're a bit early here but it's interesting discussion nevertheless stating that machine learning is likely to play a big part in the afor mentioned generational leap and it's not a stretch to come to that conclusion considering Sony's already implementing that into PS5 Pro as I mentioned now we're already starting to see this in both the PC and console space with widespread adoption of Nvidia dlss which is powered by Machine learning and PlayStation's spectral super resolution which is a new feature for for PS5 Pro which will be introduced with the upcoming model so according to digital Foundry the surface has been barely scratched regarding what machine learning is truly capable of as of right now it's being used to den noise ra tracing with nvidia's dlss Ray reconstruction many of the applications that are already being researched at this time such as material and texture quality improvements and even geometry so some of these machine learning powered features could make the difference between the PlayStation 6 and the next Xbox over their predecessors potentially making these systems the real the real 4K resolution 60 FPS machines the current generation consoles were sold on yes oversold speaking about current consoles digital FY has no doubt that both the PS5 and Xbox series X were oversold certainly the Xbox series s was 4K resolution at 60 FPS per second was impossible to achieve without PS4 and Xbox one level of visuals and it was known from the start mostly due to insufficient GPU bandwidth that other features that were also talked about before release ended up being unused as many of them are expensive to implement with machine learning likely to have a major impact on future consoles like PlayStation 6 it will be very interesting to see how its first introduction is in the console space the PS5 Pro is a nice little entry into that and we'll see how that FES thankfully it seems like we don't have to wait much longer to see PlayStation spectral super resolution as the mid generation refresh is rumored to be revealed in just weeks from now that is interesting isn't it so yeah as I said before PlayStation 6 is going to take a lot of learnings from PS5 Pro where they went right where they went wrong certainly the 10% in CPU power is probably going to help with those games that dipped below the 60 FPS line say like you 55 56 uh FPS uh deficit there so it probably will boost games and run them 60 if they were fluctuating there but if games dip down to like 40 and 37 and things like that I don't think the PS5 Pro is really going to assist there but I could be wrong but look 10% CPU some of these games are heavy on CPU some of them uh rely heavily on the GPU so it it varies game by game but let's keep things in perspective here you know you're going to be paying for like 599 maybe four 9 maybe 549 who knows but they certainly can't outprice overprice this thing where it just sits there as some type of super luxury item yeah those are my thoughts what are yours sound off in the video comments and if you like this sort of thing like subscribe hit notification until the next video play games not corporations